Revision for

End-of-Year
Examination
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Format for End-of-Year Examination

1. Paper 1

2. Paper 2

3. Paper 3

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 1.
Format
What will be tested for EOY?
 Format

Paper 1 (70 marks) Paper 2 (50 marks) Paper 3 (30 marks)

➢ Editing (10 marks) ➢ Visual Text (5 marks) ➢ Listening Comprehension
➢ Situational Writing (30 marks) ➢ Narrative Text (20 marks)
➢ Composition (30 marks) ➢ Non-narrative Text (25 marks)

1 hour 50 minutes 1 hour 50 minutes 45 minutes

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 2.
Paper 1
What do I need to take note of?
 Editing (10 marks)

➢ Use a pencil to attempt the questions first

➢ Once you have checked, erase the pencil

marks and write in pen

➢ Do not leave any questions undone

➢ Duration: 10 minutes

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 Editing (10 marks)

➢ There 10 errors (1 error each line)

➢ Do not leave your answers in pencil

➢ Circle the incorrect word, do not

underline

➢ Do not change the meaning of the word

➢ Eg: ‘phoned’ to ‘called’

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 Editing (10 marks)

➢ Targetted Editing Items:

Type of Error Explanation

Tense Present (‘eat’), Past (‘ate’), Future (‘will eat’)

Example: ‘on’, ‘in’, ‘with’, ‘about’, ‘around’, ‘into’,
Preposition ‘along’

Determiner Example: ‘the’, ‘an’, ‘some’, ‘many’, ‘few’

This is when there is no agreement between words,

Subject-Verb phrases and/or clauses.
Agreement Example: She are not feeling well today.
Example: ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’, ‘moreover’, ‘however’,
Conjunction ‘furthermore’, ‘instead’

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ Suggested duration: 45 minutes

➢ Read the questions carefully

➢ Plan your answer by writing your answers

next to the bullets

➢ Do not lift the words from the text provided

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ You have learned all these so far:

➢ Formal/Informal Letter
➢ Formal/Informal Emails
➢ Factual Report (Comparative)
➢ Speech

➢ Refer to your marked assignments with the

Cambridge markers’ comments.

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ Formal Email/Letter

➢ Introduce yourself (Introduction)

➢ State your purpose (Introduction)

➢ Restate your purpose (Conclusion)

➢ Do not use:

➢ Slangs / Colloquial sentences /

Contractions (short form e.g. It’s,
don’t)

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ Informal Email/Letter

➢ Do not introduce yourself

➢ Show concern to your audience by

asking about his/her wellbeing
(Introduction)
➢ State your purpose (Introduction)

➢ Restate your purpose (Conclusion)

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Sample format

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ Factual report
➢ Format:
➢ Title (Centralised & Underline)
➢ Introduction
➢ 1 paragraph for 1 bullet
➢ Conclusion

➢ Refer to notes on Unit 5, A&R, given earlier

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 Situational Writing (30 marks)

➢ Speech
➢ Format:
➢ Title (Centralised & Underline)
➢ Introduction
➢ 1 paragraph for 1 bullet
➢ Conclusion

➢ Refer to notes on Unit 6, A&R, given earlier

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 Continuous Writing (30 marks)

➢ You have learned all these so far:

➢ Descriptive
➢ Narrative
➢ Personal Recount
➢ Expository

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 Continuous Writing (30 marks)

➢ Read and analyse all the 4 questions

carefully using Question Topic Keyword
(QTK)

➢ Choose the question you have the most

points/content

➢ Plan your story by writing out the

summary of every paragraph

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 Continuous Writing (30 marks)

➢ Check your spelling, punctuations and

grammar after every paragraph

➢ You should not spend more than 1 hour

on this

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 Continuous Writing (30 marks)

➢ Recount / Narrative
➢ Point
➢ Elaboration /Explanation
➢ Examples /Evidence
➢ Link

➢ One paragraph – one point

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 3.
Paper 2
What do I need to take note of?
 Visual Texts

❑ Formula to answer Purpose question:

❑ Verb + Audience + Intended Outcome

❑ Verbs you can use:

❑ Encourage / Entice / Persuade / Promote /
Warn / Inform / Inspire / Convince

❑ Verbs you cannot use:

❑ Tell / Make / Ask / Show / Create awareness

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 Visual Texts
❑ Target audience question:
❑ Do not give answers like : General Public
❑ Need to be more specific
❑ Tone of the texts
❑ Friendly vs formal
❑ Encouraging/ argumentative
❑ Similarity
❑ State both texts are similar because…
❑ Differences:
❑ Text 1 is… but Text 2 is… , therefore, they are different.

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Comprehension Text

When we see any of the 4

words, we need to include
quotation marks “quote”,
“identify or which ”:
❖ word
❖ phrase
❖ sentence

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Word | Phrase | Sentence | Expression

Phrase
➢ more than one word
➢ without punctuation
➢ do not begin with a
capital letter
➢ cannot sound like a
sentence

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Word | Phrase | Sentence | Expression

Sentence
➢ more than one word
➢ with punctuation
➢ begin with a capital
letter and
➢ end with a full stop.

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 Answer in your own words

➢ Answers are found in the passage

➢ Change the action words ONLY

➢ Do not change the meaning of the phrase

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 Three to Four marks question

➢ Refer to the sentences given in the question

➢ Match the meaning given to the quoted

words/phrases

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Summary

Do not
➢ Change the meaning of
the sentences
➢ Write more than 80
words
➢ Include examples,
statistics, elaborations

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Summary

Please
➢ Read the question and
highlight the
keywords
➢ Refer to your notes to
refresh your memory
to attempt summary
question

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Recall what we did for summary

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 4.
Paper 3
What do I need to take note of?
 Listening Comprehension

❑ Ensure your words are spelled correctly

❑ Do not use short forms

❑ Use of Capital letters must be correct

❑ Ensure that the sentence is grammatically right

❑ Take down notes

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All the Best!

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